mentir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,350
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mentir is aFrenchverb. It means: Ne pas dire la vérité ; dire quelque chose de contraire à la vérité ; cacher la vérité ; induire volontairement en erreur. Pronounced \mɑ̃.tiʁ\. It ranks #4,350 in French word frequency. Often confused with métis and munir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mentir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mentir is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃.tiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,350 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for mentir, with forms such as "emntir", "menitr", and "menntir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "métis", "munir", "monti", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mentir, spelled M-E-N-T-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas dire la vérité ; dire quelque chose de contraire à la vérité ; cacher la vérité ; induire volontairement en erreur.
- 2Déguiser ou cacher le caractère, en parlant du visage, de la physionomie d'une personne.
- 3Donner un démenti par ses actes.
- 4(réfléchi) Se persuader à soi-même une chose qu'on sait être fausse.
- 5(réciproque) Se dire des mensonges les uns aux autres.
- 6Dire, répondre, manifester quelque chose de mensonger, d’insincère.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emntir,menitr,menntir,mentirr,mentri,menttir,metnir,mmentir,mnetir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mentir
Misspelling Variants of "mentir"
Frequency rank: #4,350 in French
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Nearby French words
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